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My experience is that scientific breakthroughs (e.g. man on the moon, invitro fertilization, etc.) are greeted by the general public with accolades and enthusiasm. The idea of human cloning, meanwhile, has been typically received with disdain and trepidation. Why?
People perceive cloning as an affront to their humanity and sense of individuality. Beyond this, there is great potential for abuse.
We could imagine certain scenarios where cloning could help save a human life. For example, let's say you only have one kidney, and then discover that you are the only exact-match donor for your brother, who will die if he doesn't get a new kidney. You could clone yourself, and then use one of the new kidneys to save your brother's life.
On the other hand, the potential for abuse is enormous. The most frightening idea is "growing" humans in cages, in order to "harvest" their bodies for spare parts. It is not far-fetched to imagine an unscrupulous multi-millionaire cloning himself in this manner – in case he should ever need a kidney, heart, eye, bone marrow, etc.
Another potential abuse is creating a class of mindless worker-clones. If the goal of cloning is to mold a being who mindlessly follows prescribed dictates, this is antithetical to Judaism. Our tradition encourages independent thought. In fact, the goal of a Jewish parent, teacher or rabbi is to create independence. That is why the Talmud states that parents are responsible for teaching their children how to read and write, learn Torah (gain wisdom for living), earn a livelihood, etc.
So... is cloning good or bad? Judaism says there is nothing in the world that is INHERENTLY good or evil; there is only the POTENTIAL for good and evil. Even something we typically associate as "bad" – for example, outrage – can be used for good – outrage against injustice. Similarly, even something we typically associate as "good" – for example, giving – can be used for bad – over-giving, or smothering. Talent, education and wisdom only have POTENTIAL.
Surveys show that the majority of people oppose human cloning because of the great likelihood of abuse. Apparently, people perceive society as essentially irresponsible and untrustworthy. Nuclear power, with all its potential positive uses, remains a threat to all humanity. Like Frankenstein, it is created by human intelligence, but at the same time may have a dangerous tendency to outgrow human control and become destructive. Rabbi Moshe Tendler says: "The real problem is that whenever man has shown mastery over man, it has always meant the enslavement of man."
It is our prayer that the world will use its powers only for purposes which are good, holy, and truly "human."
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Verifying SaLuSa: On the Dark Planes
SaLuSa is from the star Sirius. Many statements that he makes about Ascension, the Golden Age, and the Fifth Dimension remain unverifiable by us. How do we know he is telling the truth?
Well, even if we cannot verify these statements, there are others we can.
We can examine a number of his assertions about the Astral Planes by comparing them with the accounts of gaians (or terrestrials) who've died and have communicated from the afterlife on what conditions there are like.
I'd like specifically to take some of his quoted statements in the article, "The importance of Raising Vibrations to Ascension," and show that we can support them from gaian sources.
In this article, I'd like to begin with the first statement he made that can be corroborated – a description of the "lowest astral levels" – which gaian spirits call the Dark Planes, Shadowlands, or Winterlands. These levels are what are conventionally thought of as Hell, and they are indeed hellish, but not in the conventional ways the Bible describes.
First let's look at what SaLuSa says about the Dark Planes:
"If you have ever heard reports of what it is like in the lowest astral levels, you will know that the vibrations are so low that it is almost completely devoid of Light. More to the point matter is unable to hold its form and tends to fall apart. Imagine being a soul who has dropped to this level through their lack of Light. It is a miserable existence and is their Hell, because they have allowed their godsparks to become so dim." (1)
American journalist Julia Ames, who died around 1892, tells us that "people don't believe in the hell of fire any more and they have by their recoil forgotten that there is a real hell." (2) Says psychologist Frances Banks, who died in 1962:
"There are … Hells, though certainly differing from the physical hells and everlasting fiery torments of man's warped imagination. There are hells of the spirit and the mind, confining states of misery; dark, depressing, and as real as the tortured consciousness of the dweller therein makes them." (3)
She goes on to describe the dark planes:
"The Shadow Land is a very real place indeed; a gloomy murk covers it to which one has to become accustomed; squalid dwellings inhabited by unhappy, tormented beings who jeer and mock and pursue their warped existences. Sometimes these poor souls live in hatred and rebellion, sometimes in apathy and sometimes with fierce denial that there is any other state of existence possible." (4)
Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, who, as a Roman Catholic priest, had agreed not to discuss what he knew to be true about life after death while alive, set out to undo his misrepresentations after he died in 1914. He visited the dark planes and found them to be, as SaLuSa said, devoid of light.
"Our visits [he traveled with two other companions] have carried us to what we verily believe to be the lowest plane of human existence." (5)
"[If the light regions are called the Summerland,] the dark regions might almost be called the 'Winterland,' but for the fact that the earthly winter possesses a grandeur all its own, while there is nothing but abomination about the lower realms of the spirit world." (6)
"[In] those realms of darkness and semi-darkness, … all is cold and bleak and barren." (7)
Benson described his descent into hell in the company of his guide and mentor, Edwin, and friend, Ruth:
"The light steadily diminishes until we are in a grey land, and then comes the darkness – deep, black, impenetrable darkness; impenetrable, that is, to those who are spiritually blind. Visitors from a higher realm see in this darkness without themselves being seen by the inhabitants, unless it becomes vitally necessary to indicate their presence." (8)
His portrait of one of the inhabitants of the dark planes, a former magistrate in medieval times who tortured his prisoners, is finely drawn. I'll quote it at some length:
"We walked closer to one of the sub-human forms that lay sprawled upon the rocks. What remnant of clothing it wore might easily have been dispensed with, since it consisted of nothing but the filthiest rags, which hung together in some inconceivable way, leaving visible great gaps of lifeless-looking flesh. The limbs were so thinly covered with skin that one full expected to see bare bones showing forth.
"The hands were shaped like the talons of some bird of prey, with the finger nails so grown as to have become veritable claws. The face upon this monster was barely human, so distorted was it, and malformed. The eyes were small and penetrating, but the mouth was huge and repulsive, with thick protruding lips set upon a prognathic jaw, and scarcely concealing the veriest fangs of teeth.
"We gazed earnestly and long at this sorry wreck of what was once a human form and I wondered what earthly misdeeds had reduced it to this awful state of degeneration.
"Edwin, who was experienced in these sights, told us that in time we should gain certain knowledge in our work, which would enable us to read from the faces and forms of these creatures what it was that had reduced them to their present state.
"There would be no need to accost them to find out at least some of their life's story, for there it was written for the experienced to read. Their very appearance, too, would be a safe guide as to whether they needed help or whether they were still content to abide in their sunken state.
"The object that was now before us, said Edwin, would warrant little sympathy as he was, because he was still steeped in his iniquity and was obviously showing not the least sign of regret for his loathsome earthly life. He was dazed at the loss of his physical energy and puzzled in his mind to know what had befallen him. His face showed that, given the opportunity, he would continue with his base practices with every ounce of power that remained to him.
"That he had been several hundred years in the spirit world could be seen by the tattered remnants of his garb, which bespoke a former age, and he had spent the greater part of his earth life inflicting mental and physical tortures upon those who had the misfortune to come into his evil clutches.
"Every crime that he had committed against other people had, at last, reverted to, and descended upon, himself. He now had before him – he had done so for hundreds of years – the memory, the indelible memory, of every act of evil he had perpetrated against his fellows.
"When he was upon earth, he had acted under a false pretence of administering justice. In very truth, his justice had been nothing but a travesty and now he was seeing exactly what true justice really meant. Not only was his own life of wickedness continually before him, but the features of his many victims were ever passing before his mind, created out of that same memory which is registered unfailingly and ineradicably upon the subconscious mind. He cannot ever forget; he must always remember. And his condition was aggravated by the anger of feeling like a trapped animal." (9)
Really Benson has said enough, but I continue with portraits of this realm in case we think he exaggerates. Here is American Lutheran theologian A.D. Mattson visiting the dark planes after his death in 1970:
"There is a condition which could be termed the 'depths of hell.' People who have deliberately chosen to live debased or cruel lives and have turned their backs on the light of God find themselves in a state similar to groping in a dark and depressing fog. Everyone there is wrapped up in his own cruel thinking. These souls wander around in this lost state until they, of their own volition, make an attempt to turn toward the realm of light. Some may be lost for eons of time." (10)
As we saw with the magistrate, the inhabitants of the Winterlands are obliged to relive their crimes over and over again. Julia Ames says:
"The imagination, which here is far more powerful than with you, fills the solitude with specters, and the sinner feels he is encompassed by the constantly renewed visions of his deeds. Nor is this all; he sees those whom he has injured and he fears. If ever a soul needs a Saviour and Deliverer, it is when imagination and memory without love recreate all anew the selfish acts of a loveless life." (11)
Mary Bosworth, who died I believe in the 19th century and was a postmortem leader of a spirit communication circle from the spirit side, also describes this condition among the dark ones:
"The spirits of criminals often return and live over again the atrocities for which they are still suffering. It is the law of cause and effect. Their subconscious selves received the impressions of their acts and beliefs so strongly that they are still bound by the old sensations and criminal instincts, and they try to reproduce the semblance of the crimes or incidents that caused these impressions, in the surroundings in which they occurred.
"They live it over again as an actor reproduces a scene he has memorized. It is through the terribleness of these scenes that they discover themselves for what they are. It is sometimes a lifetime before they turn away from their evil impulses. But it is this earthwalking, this renewing of their past crimes in memory, that finally makes them determine to try for something better." (12)
Bosworth describes the disappointment felt by those who suddenly find themselves in the dreary setting of the Dark Planes
"When those who have led evil lives first realize that they have left the earth life they are often very hard to manage because of their disappointment. They think of their earth life as gone forever, and they have no desire whatever for anything of a spiritual nature; there is nothing to live for, and yet they are alive.
"It is much the same as life imprisonment on earth, and knowing that it was impossible to get free. Their disappointment often turns to rage and they become for a time nothing but mad creatures. It is a very pitiful sight. Even when they begin to realize that their rage is useless, and they begin to listen to other spirits, it is still one of our most difficult tasks to arouse any ambition and get them started on the upward path." (13)
SaLuSa said that matter is unable to hold its form and tends to fall apart. The malformations of the physical body, such as the prognathic jaw of Benson's magistrate, are due to the lower vibrations on the dark Planes. Here is Benson again:
"The spirit body can assume very hideous spiritual malformations. These have nothing whatever to do with the formation of the physical body, but are due solely to the kind of life that its owner led upon earth [Steve: which led him or her to the low vibrations of the Winterlands]. The malformations are various expressions of the hideousness that is resident within the mind, on many occasions that have found their outward expression in evil deeds of every description." (14)
Philip Gilbert, speaking through his mother Alice Gilbert (the two often remind me of Matthew and Suzy Ward) also describes the malformed individuals in these realms.
"Yes, unfortunately, shrunken entities with black or dingy grey auras. Sometimes they seemed, at a distance, quite charming to look at, but when you saw clearly, the glow of malice from their eyes was appalling. They seemed so full of ill-will and they were striving to thwart and pain each other incessantly." (15)
A person goes to these realms out of the working of the natural law of cause and effect. Says Benson:
"It is not a pleasant subject, but I have been advised that the facts should be given, not with the intention of frightening people – that is not the spirit world's methods or aims – but to show that such places exist solely by virtue of an inexorable law, the law of cause and effect, the spiritual reaping that succeeds the earthly sowing; to show that to escape moral justice upon the earth-plane is to find strict and unrelenting justice in the spirit world." (16)
And for those who think that Christ's vicarious shedding of blood relieves us of the burden of our sins, there is only further disappointment. Says John Heslop, resident of the Christ Sphere, a very high realm:
"Christ's death does not remove the effects of sin from any human being. Direct, deliberate sin has far-reaching consequences, stretching even into eternity, and the evil must be undone and the soul make restitution itself for the evil done in the body. God loves the sinner; God forgives the sinner; but, 'as a man sows, so must he reap.' Christ does not bear away the consequences of man's sin; every man must bear the result of his own sin here or hereafter." (17)
Most shocking of all to anyone who believes that not a lamb shall be lost to the Good Shepherd, in fact there are reports of souls being liquidated on the other side. I offer one here, the case of Irma Grese, the "angel of death" of Bergen-Belsen. Grese sicced her dogs on prisoners, shot whomever she pleased, and turned human skins into lampshades.
Philip Gilbert had the task of escorting her from the gallows of Nuremberg to the Dark Planes. Remember the scene in the film Ghost where the dark angels escorted the villain to the nether regions? Well, here is an actual escorting of a dark soul to her fate.
"We coped with the Belsen gang, but the details are difficult to describe. With some, it was easy for they were cowards and perverts and made no positive attempt to assert themselves. They all, of course, knew they were dead.
"The most evil, Irma, was absorbed at once into what is her kind, a descending whirlpool of, as it might be called, sewage. They tell me that there are, very, very rarely, entities who get so low that they can only descend – and be liquidated. We don't like to think of it here. She has a strong will and there was need to exert power upon her – her aura was the foulest I've yet seen, or smelt… Yes – to us, the aura gives off a certain usually faint 'odour,' pleasant or otherwise. Dogs can sense this.
"Irma was an 'old soul' in the bad sense – she had been forced to re-incarnate as a last chance. " (19)
On another occasion he said of Irma:
"The woman is a black magician and will be 'liquidated.' She had to incarnate first. Why, I don't understand, but, before you can be 'annulled,' you have to re-incarnate – perhaps as a last chance." (20)
One could say that Irma returned to God, but not in the fashion that is meant when we say we journey from God to God.
Finally, since we are on this subject, while I won't name names, I feel confident in saying that this is the future that awaits the men and women who engineered 9/11, caused earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, created pandemic viruses that caused deaths, arranged mind-controlled, Manchurian-candidate assassinations, murdered witnesses and whistleblowers, robbed nations of their natural resources, and all the other crimes that can be laid at the doorstep of the cabal.
Because we know that the perpetrators of these crimes will meet this kind of fate by the unerring working of divine law, we need not concern ourselves with somehow revenging the people that died. The natural law will take care of bringing the criminals to justice. Their future is inescapable.
But, returning to our main purpose in looking at the Dark Planes, we can see that SaLuSa, though a Sirian, knows well what life on our lowest astral planes is like. While we cannot verify the accuracy of his comments on many themes, we can on the subject of the Dark Planes.
If I have time I'd like to look at more of the statements he makes in that article and demonstrate that his knowledge of those circumstances is also accurate.
(1) SaLuSa, July 28, at 2010.http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.
(2) Julia T. Ames through W.T. Stead, medium, After Death. A Personal Narrative. New York: George H. Doran, n.d.; c. 1914, 110.
(3) Frances Banks, Helen Graves, Testimony of Light. London: Churches Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, 1975; c1969, 97.
(4) Ibid., 97-8. Banks is in fact not describing the absolute lowest depths of the Astral Planes, but a plane or two above.
(5) Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson through Anthony Borgia, medium, Life in the World Unseen. M.A.P., 1993, 134.
(6) Ibid., 133.
(7) Ibid., 104.
(8) Ibid., 62.
(9) Ibid., 135-6.
(10) A.D. Mattson, Ruth Mattson Taylor, ed., Witness from Beyond. New Cosmic Concepts on Death and Survival from the Late A.D. Mattson, S.T.D., through the Clairvoyant Margaret Flavell Tweddell. Portland, ME: Foreword Books, 1975, 58.
(11) Julia Ames, AD, 68.
(12) Mary Bosworth in Fred Rafferty, ed., Charlotte E. Dresser, medium, Life Here and Hereafter. Author's edition. Downloaded from http://www.harvestfields.ca/ebook/02/001/00.htm, 2 Feb. 2008, 70.
(13) Ibid., 121.
(14) Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson through Anthony Borgia, medium, Here and Hereafter. San Francisco: H.G. White, 1968 (dictated in 1957). 48-9.
(15) Philip to his mother, Alice Gilbert, medium, Philip in Two Worlds. London: Andrew Dakers, 1948. , 131-3.
(16) Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, LIWU, 133.
(17) John Heslop through F. Heslop, medium, Speaking Across the Border-Line. Being Letters from a Husband in Spirit Life to His Wife on Earth. London: Charles Taylor, 9th ed., n.d. , 106.
(19) Philip to his mother, Alice Gilbert, in PTW, 197.
(20) Ibid., 107-8.


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|Rating Update April to June
|By Jennifer Shahade
|June 9, 2006
Rating Update- April to June
The biggest story of the June rating list is that for the first time in over a year (since February 2005 to be exact) GM Hikaru Nakamura, 2005 U.S. Champion does not occupy the number one spot in U.S. rankings! In fact, he dropped to third, losing almost 60 points. Most of the problem is not with Hikaru's results, but with his consistency. In both Foxwoods and the U.S. Championship (both rated for this list), he lost to much lower rated players, but bounced back in the Swiss system to do O.K in the final standings.
Gata's rise to the top was quiet, and more about watching Hikaru drop. Still, it's fitting that he's ranked number one these days, considering his awesome performances in both Mtel Sofia and the Olympiad, neither of which will be officially rated by the USCF.
The biggest overall gainers are Yury Shulman and Alex Wojtkiewicz, who was vastly under-rated at 2587.
The top female gainers are Rusudan Goletiani and Anna Zatonskih, winners of their respective groups in San Diego. Rusa broke 2400 USCF for the first time in her career while Anna gained 15 points, a single point shy of her goal of 2500.


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FCC to Boost Broadband Funding for K-12, Libraries
Federal officials are planning to double support for schools' and libraries' broadband connectivity through the E-rate program, a step that comes amid increasing demands in the education community for faster, more reliable Internet service.
The E-rate program is currently funded at about $2.4 billion annually. The Federal Communications Commission will call for raising the portion of money flowing specifically to high-speed broadband to schools and libraries from $1 billion to $2 billion a year, a federal official told Education Week.
The new money would come through a rechanneling of existing E-rate money rather than through an infusion of new funding, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed federal officials. In a statement released Monday, the FCC said the money will come from reprioritizing funding to "focus on high-capacity Internet connectivity, increasing efficiency, and modernizing management of the E-Rate program."
President Obama last year pressed for deep changes to the E-rate program, including directing money to the kinds of technologies schools need the most, rather than antiquated ones. Specifically, Obama said his goal was to ensure that 99 percent of U.S. schools have access to high-speed broadband technology within five years.
Not long after that, the FCC, which oversees the program, unveiled a broadly worded proposal that reflected many of the president's priorities—calling for trimming waste and streamlining the flow of money to applicants seeking aid.
In describing Obama's proposal last year, administration officials did not offer a definitive price tag for making those changes to the E-rate, which is supported through fees on telecommunications providers and their customers. But back then, White House officials said if fees needed to be raised, it would result in a temporary charge of no more than $5 in annual fees on phone bills.
In his State of the Union Address last week, Obama signaled that a definitive plan for providing schools with more technology support was coming soon. The president also said private corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Sprint, and Verizon would be helping schools improve their technology by making a "down payment" on a plan that would not add "a dime to the deficit."
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday in a television interview that the administration will announce a plan in which private U.S. companies commit more than $500 million to improved school technology, "so that our kids can compete in this economy." The White House later said more details would be announced Tuesday.
According to the Times, the FCC plan would not require any additional taxes or assessments.
The agency said in its statement that the new funding will amount to about $2 billion over the next two years in additional money going to broadband, and that the money would be directed to the most pressing needs of schools and libraries. Only about half of the E-rate funds today are used to support "true high-speed Internet connections," the FCC added.
"As we consider long-term improvements to the program, we will take immediate steps to make existing funds go farther, significantly increasing our investment in high-speed Internet to help connect millions of students to the digital age," FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in the agency's statement. "We will take a business-like approach to the management of the program, identifying opportunities to improve the ways funds are deployed and streamlining the process for schools and libraries."
Wheeler is expected to announce more details of the plan this week.
The potential for some measure of increased funding for broadband drew a positive reaction from Evan Marwell, the CEO of EducationSuperHighway, a San Francisco-based organization that has called for the federal government to do more to meet schools' rising technology demands.
"It's a critical down payment for our children's future, and can help bring high-speed fiber and Wi-Fi to needy schools and libraries across the country," Marwell said in an e-mail to EdWeek. He said Wheeler has shown he understands "the importance of focusing the E-rate on broadband to improving educational outcomes."
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The Red Shoes, playing on TCM on Thursday
Can't complain about this week one little bit. We've got newly featured stuff from the final Flynn-de Havilland pairing in They Died With Their Boots On to a rare non-suspense film from Hitchcock, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, both on Monday. We've also got classics from Peckinpah and McQueen (Junior Bonner on Wednesday) and Powell and Pressburger (The Red Shoes on Thursday), plus the quintessential coming-of-age film The Graduate on Saturday. And that's just the stuff we haven't featured before – lots of excellent repeats throughout the week as well.
Monday, April 19
10:00am – TCM – They Died With Their Boots On
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland's last of ten films together is this highly fictionalized account of General Custer, from his days at West Point through his legendary last stand against the Sioux Indians. History's out the window here, but rousing Hollywood western action takes its place, and Flynn & de Havilland are always worth watching, especially together.
1941 USA. Director: Raoul Walsh. Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn.
Newly Featured!
4:15am (20th) – TCM – Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
No relation to the 2005 Pitt-Jolie vehicle, this Mr. and Mrs. Smith is one of Hitchcock's only straight comedies, no suspense or mystery plot in sight. It's a serviceable screwball comedy, with Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard as the title couple who discover their marriage may not be legally binding. It's worth watching once, but overall it's a relatively minor entry in both Hitchcock's career and the annals of screwball comedy.
1941 USA. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Robert Montgomery, Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson.
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Tuesday, April 20
6:35am – IFC – Strictly Ballroom
The first of Baz Lurhmann's "Red Curtain" trilogy, about a Latin ballroom dancer who shakes up the Australian ballroom competition circuit with his unorthodox choreography. Among other things. A little shrill at times, but mostly funny and endearing, and less borderline schizophrenic than the rest of the trilogy (which I love, don't get me wrong).
1992 Australia. Director: Baz Luhrmann. Starring: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson, Gia Carides.
(repeats at 12:05pm)
6:45pm – IFC – Se7en
A taut and dark film, as you might expect from David Fincher, of a pair of homicide detectives hunting a serial killer who uses the Seven Deadly Sins as a template for his murders, seeing himself as a righteous justice-dealer against those who indulge in these particular sins. Good performances all around as well as the intricate script and solid direction take Se7en a notch above the average serial killer thriller.
1995 USA. Director: David Fincher. Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey.
Wednesday, April 21
2:00pm – TCM – Broadway Melody of 1936
MGM made four films under the Broadway Melody title (in 1929, 1935, 1936 and 1940), and this is easily the best – a polished, sparkling show biz tale with the production detail you expect from 1930s MGM. Eleanor Powell can dance up a storm no matter what film she's in, and this is one of the few she did, honestly, that has any interest outside of her tap numbers.
1935 USA. Director: Roy Del Ruth. Starring: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel.
Newly Featured!
3:45pm – Sundance – Bob le flambeur
Jean-Pierre Melville's noirish crime film about an aging gambler/thief who takes on one last job – knocking over a casino. Melville was the master of French crime films, and an important figure leading up to the New Wave – Godard name-checks this film in Breathless, mentioning Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler) as an associate of Michel's.
1956 France. Director: Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Gérard Buhr, Daniel Gauchy.
8:00pm – Sundance – Pan's Labyrinth
One of my absolute favorite films of the past decade (or ever, really), an absolutely beautiful and terrifying fantasy that juxtaposes the gruesome horrors of the Spanish Civil War with an equally horrifying fantasy world that provides, if not escape, at least some measure of importance and control to the film's young heroine. Guillermo Del Toro solidified my view of him as a visionary filmmaker with this film, and it still stands to me as a testament to what fantasy can and should do.
2006 Spain/Mexico. Director: Guillermo Del Toro. Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Meribel Verdú, Doug Jones.
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(repeats at 4:00am on the 22nd)
10:00pm – Sundance – Black Book
Paul Verhoeven invests Black Book with just enough of his signature over-the-top brashness to give the WWII story of a Dutch Jewish woman infiltrating the Gestapo for the Resistance a healthy dose of panache. Every time you think it won't go the next step, it does, and it's pretty damned entertaining the whole time.
2006 Netherlands. Director: Paul Verhoeven. Starring: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman.
3:00am (22nd) – TCM – Junior Bonner
Steve McQueen is Junior Bonner, an aging cowboy continuing to compete in rodeos and longing to hold onto the old ways as the world moves on around him. His brother, a lousy cowboy but a savvy businessman, leads the change from the Old West as reality to the Old West as tourist attraction, and the contrast and conflict mingled with family ties carries through the film – Sam Peckinpah's bittersweet and nostalgic but also rousingly entertaining reverie on the passing of an age.
1972 USA. Director: Sam Peckinpah. Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker, Barbara Leigh.
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Thursday, April 22
8:10am – IFC – Wild Strawberries
On his way to accept an honorary degree, elderly medical doctor Victor Sjöström thinks back and re-evaluates his life while being plagued by nightmares. Sounds kinda depressing, but then again, it is Ingmar Bergman. And he has a way of making depressing seem AWESOME.
1957 Sweden. Director: Ingmar Bergman. Starring: Victor Sjöstroöm, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand.
8:00pm – TCM – The Red Shoes
Almost all of the films Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made together are incredibly good, but The Red Shoes might just be the best. In the film, a mix of the tale of Svengali and of Hans Christian Anderson's story about a ballerina who couldn't remove the red shoes and was doomed to dance to her death, actual ballerina Moira Shearer is the dancer made successful by a jealous ballet impresario, though she loves a poor composer. The centerpiece of the film is a Technicolor extravaganza performance of the titular ballet, still one of the greatest ballet sequences on film.
1948 UK. Directors: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook.
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10:30pm – TCM – Once Upon a Time in the West
A disparate group of characters interact and intertwine on America's western frontier – a young widow seeking those who killed her family, the outlaw suspected (but innocent) of the murders, the ruthless leader of a gang in the employ of a railroad tycoon, and a harmonica-playing stranger. With that as a starting point, Sergio Leone creates what is possibly the ultimate epic western to end all westerns.
1969 Italy/USA. Director: Sergio Leone. Starring: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson.
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Friday, April 23
8:00pm – TCM – 2001: A Space Odyssey
The benchmark for intellectual science fiction, Kubrick's probable masterpiece is a mindbending ride through a mysteriously alien-driven evolution, with plenty of time for man vs. machine conflict, beautiful space ballet, and gorgeous cinematography.
1968 USA. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester.
Must See
11:00pm – TCM – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Musical tones and volcano images haunt Richard Dreyfuss, eventually leading to an encounter with some of the most strangely beuatiful and mysterious, yet apparently friendly, aliens ever put on film.
1977 USA. Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban.
Saturday, April 24
4:00pm – TCM – Fahrenheit 451
François Truffaut's first foray in English-language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book-burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right. It's a great book, and a pretty good film, with Julie Christie in an interestingly-cast double role.
1966 UK. Director: François Truffaut. Starring: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack.
6:00pm – TCM – The Adventures of Robin Hood
I will state almost categorically that this is the greatest adventure film ever made. Maybe it's a dead heat between this one and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Errol Flynn is Robin Hood, Olivia de Havilland is Maid Marion, a whole raft of fantastic character actors fill out the rest of the cast, and it's all done in gorgeous Technicolor (it's one of the earliest Technicolor films).
1938 USA. Directors: William Keighley & Michael Curtiz. Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Patric Knowles, Una O'Connor.
Must See
8:00pm – TCM – The Graduate
One of the classic coming-of-age stories, with Dustin Hoffman in one of his first roles as the recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock. Unsure of what to do with his life after college, he takes advantage of his family's upper middle-class wealth and does nothing – oh, except for fall into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, his father's partner's wife. When Elaine Robinson returns home from Berkeley, Benjamin's attentions waver from mother and daughter. There's no question that the film has become a cultural milestone.
1967 USA. Director: Mike Nichols. Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross.
Must See
Newly Featured!
10:00pm – TCM – The Magnificent Ambersons
Welles followed up Citizen Kane with this film about a wealthy but decaying American family, but wasn't given nearly as much creative freedom. But even with studio interference, it's well worth seeing.
1942 USA. Director: Orson Welles. Starring: Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead.
3:30am (25th) – TCM – Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray's best-known movie (though not, I'd argue, his best), likely because it's one of James Dean's three films. Dean is a rebellious teen, hanging out with the wrong crowd, whose parents don't understand him. It all seems a little overwrought these days, but there's an intensity to Dean and the film that manages to make it still relatable.
1955 USA. Director: Nicholas Ray. Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo.
Sunday, April 25
7:55am – Sundance – Nights of Cabiria
Nights of Cabiria, one of the films Federico Fellini made during his sorta-neo-realist phase, casts Masina as a woman of the night, following her around almost non-committally, yet with a lot of care and heart. And Masina is simply amazing in everything she does – not classically beautiful, but somehow incredibly engaging for every second she's onscreen.
1957 Italy. Director: Federico Fellini. Starring: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi.
Must See
8:25am – IFC – Howl's Moving Castle
Hayao Miyazaki has been a leader in the world of kid-friendly anime films for several years now, and while many would point to Spirited Away as his best film, I actually enjoyed Howl's Moving Castle the most of all his films. Japanese animation takes some getting used to, but Miyazaki's films are well worth it, and serve as a wonderful antidote to the current stagnation going on in American animation (always excepting Pixar).
2004 Japan. Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Starring (dubbed voices): Christian Bale, Emily Mortimer, Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall
(repeats at 5:00am on the 26th)
5:00pm – TCM – The Best Years of Our Lives
One of the first films to deal with the aftermath of WWII, as servicemen return home to find both themselves and their homes changed by the long years of war. Director William Wyler and a solid ensemble cast do a great job of balancing drama and realism without delving too much into sentimentality.
1946 USA. Director: William Wyler. Starring: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Herbert Russell, Cathy O'Donnell.
8:00pm – TCM – Singin' in the Rain
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly team up for what is now usually considered one of the greatest musicals of all time. Inspired by songs written by MGM producer Arthur Freed at the beginning the sound era, Singin' in the Rain takes that seismic shift in film history for its setting, focusing on heartthrob screen couple Don Lockwood (Kelly) and Lina Lamont (the hilarious Jean Hagen) as the transition into sound – problem being that Lamont's voice, like many actual silent screen stars, doesn't fit her onscreen persona. Hollywood's often best when it turns on its own foibles, and this is no exception.
1952 USA. Directors: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly. Starring: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen.
Must See
8:05pm – IFC – The Crying Game
British soldier Forest Whitaker is captured by an IRA cell, and one of the IRA members (Stephen Rea), against his better judgement, befriends him. Later, Rea leaves the cell and makes his way to London to find Whitaker's lover and ends up getting involved with her under an assumed identity. There's an additional twist that you likely know if you play any film trivia at all, but the rest of the film is a solid exploration of terrorist guilt with director Neil Jordan's characteristic angst.
1992 UK. Director: Neil Jordan. Starring: Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson.
(repeats at 12:45am on the 26th)
10:00pm – TCM – Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder's classic noir explores the dark side of the rich and formerly famous, as a struggling screenwriter (William Holden) gets involved with a silent screen star seeking to make a comeback in the sound era. In one of the most brilliant cast films ever, actual silent screen star Gloria Swanson returned to the movies to play the delusional Norma Desmond and actual silent star/director Erich von Stroheim (who worked with Swanson on the never-finished Queen Kelly, portions of which appear in Sunset Boulevard) plays her former director/current butler. The film is a bit on the campy side now, but that doesn't diminish its enjoyability one bit.
1950 USA. Director: Billy Wilder. Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olsen, Erich Von Stroheim, Buster Keaton.
Must See
1:15am (26th) – Sundance – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
One of the major films in Romania's current cinematic resurgence – emphasis on realism, slow pacing, and in this case, the failures of the Romanian health care system, which shunts poor Mr. Lazarescu around from hospital to hospital as he gets sicker and sicker. I wasn't as captivated by this as I was by 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days by a longshot, but if you're interested in Romanian film, you oughta see it. If you didn't like 4 Months, though, you almost certainly won't like this. ;)
2005 Romania. Director: Cristi Puiu. Starring: Ion Fiscuteanu, Doru Ana, Monica Barladeanu, Doru Boguta.


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While you may not believe all of the content here in our studies (and you don't have to) all of the information here will point to the fact that there is a all powerful God who is in total control and desires to help you personally because he loves you.
Do you think you have had an "alien abduction" experience or any other type of unwanted visitations and/ or harassments? Orbs, ghosts, shadow people, black eyed kids, sleep paralysis, constant humming noises or clicks in the night distracting you from healthy sleep or anything unwanted and not believed by others? You have a chance here with friends that can help. With 38 years of active ministry and 15 of them dealing with all things supernatural and paranormal we have never turned anyone or any case away no matter how strange it sounds, we can help you!
We admit this help does not come from highly trained PhD's with a medical background but in the same respect we are not a bunch of well meaning novices void of any serious background either. I (JIm Wilhelmsen) have had at least the basic courses from Central Bible College in Pastoral Counseling and also some related classes from Schoolcraft Community College. Working in the city of Detroit with the gangs and drug community, I have experienced many supernatural workings using the gifts of God's Holy Spirit to see many delivered and restored to productive members of society. It is applying the same gospel, the same weapons of warfare against such personal attacks and addictions that are created by the same spiritual enemy in any and all forms that you can be delivered and set free.
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Pasta cresciuta. From Naples. My local pizzaria here in Bari is Neapolitan and cooks what the locals regard as "thick" pizzas. The Barese go there when they want some foreign food 🙂 They also cook a few specialities from Naples, such as arancini and this dish. Pasta cresciuta means "grown dough", because the batter contains yeast. You can cook them without a filling, or with some of the more traditional ones such as courgette flowers or anchovies. Alternatively experiment with what you have to hand. The batter will make about 60-80 pieces.
- Sun-dried tomato halves, soaked to soften
- Courgette (Zucchini) flowers picked over to make sure they don't contain any insects etc.
- Large sage leaves
- Anchovy fillets
- Oil for deep frying (traditionally olive oil, but sunflower oil is acceptable)
For the batter
- 1 cube of fresh yeast
- 320ml lukewarm water
- 300g oo flour
- A pinch of salt
First make the batter. Dissolve the yeast in the water. Sift the flour into a bowl and add the salt. Make a well in the centre and add the yeast mixture. Beat it with a whisk until smooth. Cover and leave in a warm place for 1 – 2 hours to rise. It should about double in size.
Heat a pan full of oil to a medium heat, about 180°c. If the oil is too hot the fritters will be raw on the inside and burnt on the the outside. If the temperature is too low they will be soggy. A litte experimentation may be needed to get it right.
To make plain fritters, drop tablespoons of the batter into the hot oil. Cook until they are lightly browned, turning once. You are aiming to keep a reasonably soft texture. Think savory doughnuts. Drain on kitchen paper. Dip the various fillings into the batter and continue as before.
They are best eaten hot, but may also be eaten cold.


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Argument preview: Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture
In No. 07-474, Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture, the Court will consider whether the Equal Protection Clause, and in particular the "class-of-one" doctrine, prohibits a government employer from intentionally treating an employee differently from similarly situated employees when it has no rational basis to do so. Petitioner Engquist argues that her class-of-one claim is permitted under Village of Willowbrook v. Olech (2000). Respondents "" the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) and two ODA officials "" counter that Olech does not extend to government decisions regarding public employment, but that "" at a minimum "" the Court should cabin the doctrine's reach. Petitioner, however, contends that the standard elements of an equal protection claim, along with traditional rationality review, sufficiently limit the doctrine's reach.
Petitioner Anup Enquist was an employee at the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA), where she worked as an international food standards specialist. Engquist alleges that respondent Joseph Hyatt, who was hired a few years before her, made repeated attempts to harass her and to frustrate her job performance. In 2001, respondent John Szczepanski became the Assistant Director of ODA and promoted Hyatt to a supervisory position despite some indications that Engquist was more qualified. Szczepanski later justified Hyatt's promotion on the ground that Hyatt's previous business experience suggested he would be more capable of addressing the department's pressing financial challenges. Engquist asserts that Hyatt continued to harass her after assuming his new position as her supervisor. A few months after his promotion, Hyatt and Szczepanski fired Engquist, citing budget necessity; Engquist, however, alleges that there was no credible or rational justification for dismissing her rather than others in the department.
In December 2002, Engquist brought suit in federal court. As relevant here, her claims included an equal protection claim asserting that she had been mistreated and fired "for arbitrary, vindictive, and malicious reasons." The respondents filed a motion for summary judgment, which the district court denied as to the equal protection claim. Instead, it held, Engquist could maintain a class-of-one claim by showing "that [respondents'] actions were spiteful efforts to punish her for reasons unrelated to any legitimate state objective." Moreover, the court continued, "[a]s with any equal protection claim, plaintiff must also demonstrate that she was treated differently than others who were similarly situated." The case went to trial, and the jury returned a verdict for Engquist on her class-of-one claim.
On appeal, the Ninth Circuit reversed, holding that "the class-of-one equal protection theory is not applicable to decisions made by public employers." The majority drew a line between the government's actions as a sovereign and its actions as a proprietor managing its own affairs; in the latter arena, the panel explained, a class-of-one claim is impermissible. The majority emphasized that in the employment context the State has broad powers, and that "the scope of judicial review is correspondingly restricted." The court also suggested that recognizing a class-of-one claim in this context would "upset long-standing personnel practices," because "[t]he power of employers to discharge employees for reasons that may appear arbitrary, unless constrained by contract or statute, is well-established under the common law of at-will employment." The majority went on to conclude that "[t]he class-of-one theory of equal protection is another constitutional area where the rights of public employees should not be as expansive as the rights of ordinary citizens."
Petition for Certiorari
Engquist filed a petition for certiorari on October 5, 2007. Although the petition presented two questions for review, the Court granted certiorari on only one: whether traditional equal protection "rational basis" analysis under Village of Willowbrook v. Olech (2000) applies to public employers who intentionally treat similarly situated employees differently with no rational bases for arbitrary, vindictive or malicious reasons.
Engquist argued that the petition should be granted because the Ninth Circuit's decision in the case conflicted with the decisions of seven other circuits. She further argued that the Ninth Circuit's concerns "" viz., that a contrary ruling would undermine the tradition of at-will employment and constitutionalize too broad a range of state actions "" were unfounded. Opposing certiorari, respondents acknowledged that the circuits were divided on the issue but disagreed that certiorari was warranted because, in their view, the conflicting circuits had not "given thoughtful consideration to this issue." Respondents suggested that the Ninth Circuit had correctly identified an important distinction between actions in which the government functions as a sovereign and those in which the government functions as an employer. To extend class-of-one equal protection claims to the latter arena, they argued, would risk constitutionalizing too broad a range of employment decisions.
The Court granted certiorari on January 11, 2008.
Merits Briefing
Engquist's merits brief begins by emphasizing that the Equal Protection Clause was originally intended to protect individual persons, not just classes. She then argues that application of traditional equal protection rational basis review to class-of-one claims limits potential government liability, thereby avoiding the Ninth Circuit's concerns about exposing state governments to excessive federal oversight.
Turning to the text of the clause, petitioner emphasizes its command that "[n]o state shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Thus, she argues, application of the clause is not limited to certain classes and "does not exempt public employers from its command." Engquist then examines the history of the clause's ratification, along with early Supreme Court cases, attempting to underscore that the clause was originally understood to protect individuals. This history, argues Engquist, led "inexorably" to the holding in Olech, which recognized that equal protection claims could be brought by a "class of one." Given this history, she argues, recognition of class-of-one claims in the public employment context "adhere[s] to the long-established principle that the Equal Protection Clause applies to all forms of discrimination, whatever the context and whoever the actor." While recognizing that the clause will be applied differently in different contexts, petitioner urges that "regardless of how the Clause applies, it always applies."
Respondent ODA rejects this argument, suggesting instead that the "class-of-one theory in general is at the outskirts of the concerns that underlie the Equal Protection Clause . . . , and applying the theory in the context of decisions public employers make about their employees . . . distort[s] the clause and its application." ODA suggests that "any person" was not intended to be read literally, that the Supreme Court itself has recognized that the evidence regarding the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Amendment are inconclusive, and that pre-Olech case law did not lead "inexorably" to recognition of class-of-one claims.
Engquist also argues that there is no reason to distinguish between government as regulator and government as employer. While recognizing the different considerations at play in various contexts, she argues that specific standards of pleading and proof, rather than a categorical ban, would best address the Ninth Circuit's concern that allowing class-of-one claims by government employees would interfere with government employment decisions. Moreover, she argues, although the government has an interest in efficiency in all its operations "" employment and otherwise "" that general interest need not completely eliminate constitutional protections. Even in the employment context, she argues, the Supreme Court has applied "the Constitution to public employers and address[ed] concerns unique to the employment setting by delineating the cause of action to take those concerns into account."
Specifically, Engquist asserts that the required elements of a typical equal protection violation will protect state governments from excessive litigation and liability. Olech itself outlines the three requirements of a successful suit: (1) that the government treated the employee differently from similarly situated persons, (2) the difference in treatment was intentional, and (3) the difference was not rationally related to any legitimate government purpose. These three requirements, argues petitioner, present a significant hurdle to any prospective plaintiff, and will ensure that run-of-the-mill government decisions are not subjected to constitutional scrutiny.
Respondents, however, argue that these requirements are not sufficient. As an initial matter, respondents assert that class-of-one claims in general should not be recognized in the public employment context. Failing that, they argue, simple rational basis review "applies awkwardly at best" to employment-related decisions. Because of the individualized focus of employment decisions, and the unavoidably subjective nature of such decisions, federal equal protection review would subject states to "unpredictable and subjective second-guessing." Instead, respondents urge the Court to impose a more demanding "similarly situated" requirement, which will both limit the broad range of variables that are at play in many employment decisions and reduce the subjectivity of a court's review of employment decisions. The Court can further protect run-of-the-mill employment decisions from review, respondents contend, by adopting a more restrained reasonability requirement, in which a plaintiff must prove that animus or ill-will is the only possible basis for the decision.


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Police list demonstrators alongside terrorists
Adan Salazar
May 22, 2013
Last Saturday's marijuana legalization rally in Philadelphia, where radio host and political activist Adam Kokesh gave a keynote speech and was arrested, was possibly designated a potential terror event beforehand and attended by police specially trained to deal with terrorism.
Judging by a red patch spotted on police jackets visible in footage of Kokesh's arrest, members of the city's federalized Homeland Security Bureau, trained to deal with "civil affairs" and "counter-terrorism operations," appear to have been patrolling the event.
In at least two separate videos of the protest, numerous officers are seen wearing their normal blue and white uniforms outfitted with standard Philadelphia police patches. Other officers can also be seen, however, dressed in black jackets festooned with mysterious red patches that surround the traditional Philadelphia police emblem.
This small, but important, detail may indicate Philadelphia's Smoke Down Prohibition event was to be treated as a terror threat. Evidently marijuana legalization assemblies and other concentrated acts of civil disobedience and protest are now disturbingly being equated with terrorist activities.
Since even before the events of 9/11, the globalist think tank known as the Rand Corporation had made its intent to federalize and militarize local and state police known.
Calling for "the creation of a high-end police force," known as a Stability Police Force, the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, has been busy inserting special cadres of federal police officers in both state and city police departments, creating designated squads tasked to deal with, among other things, "a range of threats from insurgents to criminal organizations" and counter-terrorism operations. Alex Jones, an expert on the militarization and federalization of local and state police, has researched the subject for years and believes this to be the case.
Furthermore, a flow chart illustrating the organization of the Philadelphia Police Department lists their Homeland Security Deputy Commissioner, Thomas Wright, as overseeing specialized units trained in dealing with domestic preparedness and response, such as counter-terrorism operations, and, ambiguously, "civil affairs."
While no information regarding what the red patch signifies can be located, the City of Pittsburgh's Police Department does mention they have a specialty unit titled the "RED Team" prepared to deal with "certain critical incidents."
Pittsburgh's Bureau of Police website describes the RED team, short for Rapid Emergency Deployment, as a "highly skilled and highly trained specialized unit that can provide a quick and appropriate response to certain critical incidents, such as WMDs, terrorists events, major HAZMAT incidents and Acts of Civil Disobedience." (emphasis added)
Earlier this month, we also reported on Massachusetts state police who have adopted COIN (an acronym for counterinsurgency) operations cloned from Iraq and Afghanistan to address drugs and gangs.
The fact that "insurgent" is a term usually used to describe armed rebellions in occupied nations, and not your common street drug dealer or gang member, should serve as a red flag signifying local law enforcement is already beginning to take on military police characteristics.
Of course, the fact that Kokesh announced an armed, but peaceful, march on Washington DC earlier this month in defiance of the capitol's firearms laws, set to take place on July 4, doesn't help.
However, if federalized police are attending a peaceful marijuana protest event and labeling it "terrorism," it sets a startling precedent.
Infowars reached out to the Philadelphia Police Department for comment on what the red patch represents, but we have not heard back from them.
View one of the videos of Kokesh's arrest below in which the red patch is visible:
Cuban-born journalist and author Alex Abella was allowed exclusive access inside the RAND Corporation to view their archives. What he discovered was a plot driven by mad scientists, behaviorists, and generals who were intent on starting world war three and fleecing the American people in the process. Once he was a skeptic on the subject of conspiracy theories and the new world order, but after his work with the RAND Corporation he is now convinced that this top secret think tank has been pulling the strings of American government for at least 60 years.
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The instructors for the 2011 Clarion Writers Workship have been announced. Each year, Clarion, a high intensity, six-week workshop, is taught by some of the biggest names in the science fiction community.
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Week Two: John Scalzi
Week Three: Elizabeth Bear
Week Four: David Anthony Durham
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A Statement from a Comrade and Baltimore Native About the Uprising There
From SIC
I'm heading home in two days.
There is something very important happening not only in Baltimore, but across black America. As of now there have been no reported deaths at the hands of protesters in a city where 250 people are killed a year, nearly all of those homicide victims being black. In spite of the fires and the looting, the young people of Baltimore are still showing a greater restraint in their conflicts with police and store-owners than they have shown in their conflicts amongst each other. I say this because for years it has been my family too that has done some of the killing and much of the dying.
Why is it that the current uprising has, in spite of its violence, not tilted toward a shooting war between whites and blacks, cops and kids, landlords and tenants, bosses and workers, given the fact that the shooting war between young black men across the region is invariant? Because young black people still value the lives of their structural enemies more than they value their own. The engineering of what is possibly the most efficient self-cannibalizing social organism in history – the nightly shootouts, the stabbings, the overdoses – is a project that has been centuries in the making.
The black youth of Baltimore have been conditioned to view themselves as the problem. Every socio-economic issue that arises is somehow the result of their behavior. They hear this not only from the white cops, the filipina teachers, the korean liquor store owners, but also from too many of the blacks who attended Coppin or Morgan and secured decent jobs and decided that the reason the police still profile them, or their home values don't rise, or they didn't get that pay raise, is because "the niggas" moved out the county, or they are still robbing each other, or they make "the rest of us" look bad. (more…)


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I love it when my body is super sore the morning after an intense run or Pilates sesh. The less I can move my legs and arms, the better.
But, my joy at being rendered lifeless by exercise has little to do with the positive effects such activity might have had on my body. Feeling sore means one thing: I don't have to drag myself to the gym today.
However, new research is crushing my lazy dreams. A study done in Copenhagen found that more exercise is just as effective at curbing muscle pain as getting a massage. (Seriously?! Can't I just have my one, perfect excuse?)
Researchers first has 20 women do some shoulder exercises while hooked up to a resistance machine. Two days later, the women did another test—one half performed a recovery workout on one of their shoulders, then a massage, the other half did the massage first, then the workout. Both groups reported that the shoulders that did the workout and got the rub down felt better than the "control" shoulder that didn't have either. However, they also said that they felt a little less sore post-workout than post-massage.
To me, working out to ease the pain caused from working out sounds like a vicious cycle in which you're always hurting and walking funny (clearly, the women who were studied are a lot stronger than my weak little ass). So, I think I'll wait until a larger study is done on this before retiring my go-to no-gym-today excuse.
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"You Don't Love Me" lyrics - BOYZ II MEN
I don't think I know the definition of love
'Cause what you say it is and what I'm thinkin' of
You say you want a good man and
But when you got one you don't know how to handle it...
Bitta sistas what you've become
I was tryin' to be the mister to make you come to your senses
But you wanted to be happy
That's the main reason why you got at me
'Cause you know I'm an earner
Legal dough... not a crook with a burner
You can't understand what kind of love I give
You never got over your last relationship
I showed how you should be done
Before me... niggas use to smash and run
You ain't tryin', stop lyin'
You never cared and I don't even know why I'm here.
You don't love me
I took you outta the club to live lavishly
You don't love me
How could you ever take advantage of me
You don't love me
Everything you are girl I made you
You don't love me
You never loved me
Your old dude used to hold you down and beat you
I was trying to hold you down and treat ya
To shopping sprees, jewels, cars and cruses,
All this without the scares and bruises.
With him all you show is signs of meekness
May have took my kindness for weakness
Also because I don't lay hands
But that don't make me less of a man
Be easy you're being disrespectful
Don't get it twisted
I will check you
Why are chicks in check when dudes treat 'em like shit
And good dudes get no love
You don't love me
You're gonna miss me girl when I'm gone
You don't love me
Gonna remember what you did wrong
You don't love me
Never gonna find nobody like me
You don't love me
You never loved me
If you really loved me
Girl it would show
But you've been flippin on me
Now you gotta go
Don't let nothing that I bought you walk out the door
'Cause I don't want you no more
I don't want you no more